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A perennial winner of the Observer's ?best Cajun? honor, Alligator Caf� is a counter-service take on South Louisiana cuisine. The restaurant?s a reliable source of boiled crawfish come mudbug season, and the popular pies tend to sell out before closing time, the East Dallas restaurant?s good cheer and boudin balls have won over eaters. The Cajun eatery also offers occasional live blues on the weekends from the likes of local luminaries like Hash Brown.

Cuisine(s): Cajun, Creole, Seafood

Hours: Mon-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-11pm

Price: $

Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
Attire: Casual

Features: Takeout

Serving: Dinner, Lunch

Entertainment: Live Entertainment
Alcohol: Beer/Wine

Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary

Parking: Lot Available

2010 | Best Cajun Restaurant

The Alligator Café doesn't serve hurricanes, New Orleans' most popular cocktail. The chef-owned Cajun restaurant only serves beer and wine, but that's a Big Easy indiscretion easily overlooked because the food is always so damn good. Chef Ivan... More >
2010 | READERS' PICK BEST CAJUN RESTAURANT

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2009 | Best Cajun Restaurant

What can we say? There's a lot of half-assed gumbo sold in this town, but Alligator Café ladles out a rich, reeking stew that oozes bayou. Their red beans and rice remind you that this was never meant to be an elegant dish, but something to fill... More >
2008 | Best Cajun Restaurant

Alligator-skin wallpaper, green. Lots of napkins. And helpful hints: pinch the tail, suck the head. Who'd a-thunk Cajun could be so Freudian? Such is the power of the crawdad. And of the Alligator Café with its long ropes of thick and greaseless... More >
2007 | Best Fried Catfish

The whole fried catfish at Alligator Café never ceases to inspire envy in other diners who didn't have the sense to order it. First, it's large. The breading is perfect: fried golden cornmeal so fresh and crisp the meat inside is still steaming.... More >

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Dallas Observer Reviews and News

Alligator Cafe Lends Help to Its Cajun Brothers and Sisters

By Hanna Raskin | Mon, July 26, 2010

Alligator Cafe, a Cajun restaurant in East Dallas, is dedicating 10 percent of its sales each Tuesday to the Gulf Coast relief effort. "We're hoping to collect about $15,000," says Alligator C More >
Alligator Café

By Alice Laussade | Thu, August 28, 2008

People eating fried whole catfish with tails and everything count: 4 Cop count: 3 When you're driving around Dallas looking for a place to eat lunch on the cheap, you've gotta know what you're looking for. If the place has fancy freakin' awnings ... More >

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sfranch

| Wed, May 12, 2010

Real cajun cooking, probably the best I've found in Dallas to date. Their red beans and rice are killer!

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dallasobserverbestof

| Wed, May 06, 2009

Alligator-skin wallpaper, green. Lots of napkins. And helpful hints: pinch the tail, suck the head. Who'd a-thunk Cajun could be so Freudian? Such is the power of the crawdad. And of the Alligator Caf� with its long ropes of thick and greaseless fried alligator tail, soothing and swarthy gumbo with rings of fresh scallion embedded in this Cajun lava, plates of fried green tomatoes covered with shredded Parmesan on a bed of lettuce, and the heartiest damn red beans and rice your stomach ever rumbled to. Yes, Alligator, blow my Freudian crater.

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